The Forgotten Bishops : : The Malabar Independent Syrian Church and its Place in the Story of the St Thomas Christians of South India /

The Forgotten Bishops : : The Malabar Independent Syrian Church and its Place in the Story of the St Thomas Christians of South India / / John Fenwick.

The Malabar Independent Syrian Church is the smallest of the jurisdictions into which the St Thomas Christian community is divided today. It has, however, played a crucial role in the development of the Syrian Churches, whose stories can not be told without it. The present work shows how the bishops...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Fenwick, John,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (652 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Illustrations
  • Sources
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Terminology, Episcopal Nomenclature, Spelling and dates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map of Travancore, Cochin and British Malabar circa 1800
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Indian Context
  • Chapter 2: Syrian Christianity
  • Chapter 3: ‘Syrian’ Christianity in India to 1498
  • Chapter 4: The Consequences of European Contact – An Overview
  • Chapter 5: The Struggle For Independence and Identity 1653- 1751
  • Chapter 6: The Consequences of the Maphrian’s Delegation of 1751: I - The Quarrel With Mar Thoma V
  • Chapter 7: The Consequences of the Maphrian’s Delegation of 1751: II - The Consecration of Two Bishops
  • Chapter 8: Mar Koorilose I And Mar Dionysios I: Further Themes
  • Chapter 9: The Early 19th Century – Two Lines of Succession....285 A Brief Review of Sources
  • Chapter 10: The Golden Age: Geeverghese Mar Philoxenos II, Malankara Metropolitan
  • Chapter 11: Mar Koorilose III and the Termination of the Mission of Help
  • Chapter 12: Mathews Mar Athanasios
  • Chapter 13: Independence Secured
  • Chapter 14: The End of the Old Order and the Consecration of Titus I Mar Thoma
  • Chapter 15: The Twentieth Century: Expansion, Obscurity and New Initiatives
  • Chapter 16: The Significance Of The Malabar Independent Syrian Church
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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